The Catholic International Associated Press

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Sep 19, 1912

The Catholic International Associated Press

REPORTING the Louisville federation convention, M. Kinney, S. J., in America for Aug. 31, 1912, speaks as follows concerning the establishment of the Catholic Press Bureau:—

We have it in our power to compel our papers, the thinking machines of the people, to tell the truth and refrain from transmitting slanders on Catholic matters. We can prevent the wells at which the people drink from being poisoned. We can, following the lead of the Austrian Catholic Congress, establish a Catholic International Associated Press; and to accomplish this object every Catholic of the right spirit, reading in the daily papers calumnies of our religion and the most brazen justification of the robber bands who drive our religious from their homes and confiscate their property, should be willing to contribute a tithe of his possessions. All this and more can be accomplished by federated action. Individual effort is lost before the thundering roll of the multitude; marching shoulder to shoulder with the spirit of soldiers on the battle-field at the call of the church, we can successfully combat the organizations of her enemies, and make this an era of Catholic manhood.